"You Want to Sell Obamacare You’ve Got to Take Care of Obama: Megan McArdle notes
that Obama’s HHS has “reached the limits of its November strategy of
using last-minute rule-making to implement on-the-fly changes to the
law.” No more rules! Now insurance companies are being “encouraged” and “strongly encouraged” to
extend deadlines, accept late payments, pay for some out-of-network
doctors and out of plan prescriptions. Many of these things violate the
formal terms of the deal the government had made with insurers and will
cost the latter money. “They’re asking insurers to pay for the mistakes”
the administration made in the launch of the program, complains Avik Roy.
The key word is “asking.” But, as Roy notes, there’s a club HHS is
holding behind its back–the threat that if insurers don’t play along HHS
will be “considering” that factor in the “renewal process.”" [Daily Caller]
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